AND - another forum member (Manticore) posted this with some other information:
Why was a British naval flotilla pulled out of the waters around Haiti just days before the earthquake -- the first such gap in British naval coverage since the 1700s?
I really, really do not like this story
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19587
It doesn't really matter I guess, since Port-au-Prince was already flattened, one way or another, but if a British naval flotilla pulled out, it does seem odd.